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Biotechnology: A growing field in the developing world
The developing world is achieving significant growth in a broad cross-section of biotechnology fields, many of them directly tied to food production, health and other...
Level of education is more decisive than intelligence for development of short-sightedness
Environmental factors such as education and leisure activities have a greater influence on the development of short-sightedness or myopia than the ability to think logically...
Asian-Americans least likely to be screened for diabetes
Do Asian Americans receive adequate preventative healthcare when it comes to being screened for type 2 diabetes? No, says a survey of 45 US states...
Parkinson’s disease patients benefit from physical activity
A comprehensive review published in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease confirms that people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) can benefit from being physically active, especially...
Hospital admissions rising for elderly patients with Parkinson’s disease
Although treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) is significantly extending the lives of patients, these patients are now being admitted to hospitals at increasing rates. In...
Good drugs for bad bugs
20% of patients infected with MRSA are dying from systemic infections Antimicrobial resistance infections are projected to cause more deaths than cancer by 2050 if...
Genes for speech may not be limited to humans
Our current understanding is that mice have either no -- or extremely limited -- neural circuitry and genes similar to those that regulate human speech....
Study links groundwater changes to fracking
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory A new study has found heightened concentrations of some common substances in drinking water near sites where hydraulic fracturing has...
Researchers identify protein required for breast cancer metastasis
(Boston)--Researchers have identified a new pathway and with it a protein, BRD4, necessary for breast cancer cells to spread. The findings, which appear in the...
Children with aggressive behavior vary in ability to adjust after being exposed to tornadoes
WASHINGTON (November 15, 2016) - When a large group of children with aggressive behavior experienced devastating tornadoes, many of those with higher anxiety showed greater...
Research finds that antibiotic may help in treatment of alcohol use disorder
Credit: TTUHSC To date, there are not particularly effective therapies for AUD, with only three FDA approved drugs along with behavioral modification programs such as...
How mammary glands appeared in the course of evolution
A joint team of geneticists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, demonstrated that the...
New study shows LED lights attract fewer insects than other lights
New research by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed that domestic LED lights are much less attractive to nuisance insects such as biting...
EAST achieves longest steady-state H-mode pperations
Credit: Image by the EAST team Celebrating the tenth anniversary of physics operation since 2006, recent 11th EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) campaign reached a...